Meet the Summit Staff, Pt. 2

SUMMIT CAMP, GREENLAND– All of the science up at Summit Camp is made possible by a small group of amazing camp staff.

In ‘Meet the Summit Staff, Part 1‘ we met the Summit Camp manager, medic, heavy equipment operator, and chef. In this second series of videos, meet some of the other staff essential to Summit Camp’s operation.

Meet the Snow Man
Meet Ben Toth, one of the heavy equipment operators up here at Summit Camp. Not much could happen at Summit without Ben and Jake, who groom the skiway and move snow around all day, every day.

Meet the Mechanic
Willow Fitzgerald is Summit’s mechanic. It’s her job to take care of the snowmobiles and large tractors used to groom the skiway and move the snow that would otherwise bury all the buildings. And, most importantly, she maintains the Summit generator, the source of all the power that runs the camp… including the heat needed to melt water and warm the buildings.

Meet the Tech
Steve Munsell is one of the science technicians up at Summit. He makes sure a whole host of science projects– from collecting snow samples for chemistry analysis to balloon launches to measuring snow accumulation– get done.

I am trying to contact Zoe Courville for a possible story in the New Hampshire Union Leader about the Greenland project and her love of the cold stuff — a great summer story for our readers! Please have her call or email me at her earliest convenience.
Thanks
Carol Robidoux
NH Union Leader staff

I am looking for a contact email for anyone who may be working on the Poles, fathers especially. We are working on a project which helps Dads connect with their children, and would love to hear how working at the poles challenges this relationship, so hopefully we can help out in some way.

I’m based in the UK, and have come across this site as you were recent Webby Awards winners. The man who has come up with Odadeo.com, our solution to help you be a better Dad, was also a recent winner, and we are looking for people to help us test our next project.

I would love to hear from you if you were able to put me in contact with any Antarctic or Arctic Dads.

Zoe Courville studies snow and ice in the Arctic and Antarctica. She has a PhD in material science and works as a research mechanical engineer at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab in Hanover, New Hampshire. During the summer of 2008, Zoe’s research took her to the top of the Greenland Ice Cap. From November 2008 through February 2009, she’s reporting from along a 1,865-mile (3,000 km) journey from the South Pole to Troll Station as part of the Norwegian–U.S. Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica. Zoe loves working in the polar regions and sharing her experiences with others.